For some, the Sun disappeared behind the Moon in yesterday’s eclipse for a few minutes, but the 13 people living in Antarctica’s Concordia research station had to cope without sunlight for much longer.

The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft that will carry ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik and Roscosmos commander Sergey Ryazansky to the International Space Station is now on the launch pad in Kazakhstan.